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ting more important as to keep the body was in October 2019. Hence, the provincial
healthy and fresh. “I still need to use my car government of Jakarta urges the citizens
to commute the office, as it is quite far, in to use bicycle.
the South Tangerang,” he explained.
Today, Jakarta government has just built
It’s different for Heru, a man who works as 63km long bicycle lanes in the city. It is
a lawyer. He, who just has the new hab- planned that they will continue to build
it, did not join any cycling community. He bike lanes for more than 500 km. The gov-
likes to cycling around on his own, to en- ernor of Jakarta, Anies Baswedan hopes
joy the view at Pantai Indah Kapuk. “I like to that bicycle will not only used as a tool to
cycle in weekends to keep myself healthy,” exercise but also as transportation mode.
he said.
The cycling trend does not only occured in
According to a report from The Institute Indonesia. In Germany, bicycle sales spike
for Transportation and Development Poli- two-fold compared to the last three years.
cy (ITDP) in June 2020, total cyclists in Ja- In France, the government urges their peo-
karta has increased 10 times higher than it ple to bike riding by providing subsidy. Bi-
